- Author
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Fairlie, R.
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Griffiths, J. F.
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Hughes, K. J.
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Pearlman, H.
- Title
- Cool Flames in Space: Experimental and Numerical Studies of Propane Combustion.
- Coporate
- Leeds Univ., Yorkshire, UK
Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 30th. Proceedings. Volume 30. Part 1. July 25-30, 2004,
Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA,
Chicago, IL,
Chen, J. H.; Colket, M. D.; Barlow, R. S.; Yetter, R. A., Editors,
1057-1064 p.,
2005
- Keywords
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combustion
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kinetics
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microgravity
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diffusion
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propane
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cool flames
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oxygen
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ignition
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equations
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formulation
- Identifiers
- experiments on propane + oxygen cool flame and two-stage ignitions in microgravity; occurrence of a 'self-stabilized' cool flame; experimental observations of light output; reduced kinetic model, kinetic parameters and diffusion coefficients; predicted non-isothermal behavior in a zero-dimensional code using the reduced model; simulaiton of cool flames and two-stage ignitions in 1-D with heat and mass diffusion